<div>Since his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero--a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning thirty years. Having already established himself as an actor, he struck out as a filmmaker in 1959 with <i>Shadows</i>, and proceeded to build a formidable body of work, including such classics as <i>Faces</i>, <i>Woman Under the Influence</i>, <i>The Killing of a Chinese Bookie</i>, and <i>Gloria</i>. In <i>Cassavettes on Cassavettes</i>, Ray Carney presents the great director in his own words--frank, uncompromising, humane, and passionate about life and art. <br></div>